secularization

(noun)

The transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious (or "irreligious") values and secular institutions.

Related Terms

  • rationalization
  • Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
  • hermeneutic
  • paradigm
  • predestination

Examples of secularization in the following topics:

  • Secularism and the Future of Religion

    • In studies of religion, modern Western societies are generally recognized as secular.
    • Some societies become increasingly secular as the result of social processes, rather than through the actions of a dedicated secular movement; this process is known as secularization.
    • Secularization is the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward nonreligious values and secular institutions.
    • When discussing social structures, secularization can refer to differentiation.
    • Discuss the rise of secularism and its response in the West
  • The Future of Religion

    • Secularization is a varied term with multiple definitions and levels of meaning.
    • The 'process' component of secularization would refer to how the theory is actualized.
    • It is in this sense that secularization has multiple definitions.
    • 1) When discussing social structures, secularization can refer to differentiation.
    • 5) When discussing populations, secularization can refer to a societal decline in levels of religiosity (as opposed to the individual-level secularization of definition four).
  • Religion

    • Alternatively, children raised in secular homes tend not to convert to religion.
    • Secular people converted to religion and religious people became secular.
  • Value Clusters

    • In general, the World Values Survey has revealed two major axes along which values cluster: (1) a continuum from traditional to secular values and (2) a continuum from survival to self-expression.
    • Secular values have the opposite preferences to the traditional values.
    • Industrialization tends to bring a shift from traditional values to secular ones.
  • Defining Boundaries

    • Rituals, whether secular or religious, were for Durkheim the means by which groups maintained their symbolic and moral boundaries.
    • Mary Douglas has subsequently emphasized the role of symbolic boundaries in organizing experience, private and public, even in a secular society.
  • Nonmaterial Culture

    • Beliefs can be religious or secular, and they can refer to any aspect of life.
  • Sociology Today

    • The traditional focuses of sociology have included social stratification, social class, culture, social mobility, religion, secularization, law, and deviance.
  • Economic Sociology

    • The classical period was concerned particularly with modernity and its phenomenological progeny, such as rationalization, secularization, urbanization, and social stratification.
  • Natural Cycles

    • In fact, the early theory of Sima Qian, a Chinese historiographer of the Han Dynasty and typically considered to be the father of Chinese historiography, the more recent theories of long-term ("secular") political-demographic cycles as well as the Varnic theory of P.R.
    • Recently the most important contributions to the development of the mathematical models of long-term ("secular") sociodemographic cycles have been made by Sergey Nefedov, Peter Turchin, Andrey Korotayev, and Sergey Malkov.
  • Judaism

    • Large scale Jewish immigration, however, did not begin until the nineteenth century, when, by mid-century, many secular Ashkenazi Jews from Germany arrived in the United States, primarily becoming merchants and shop-owners.
    • There were approximately 250,000 Jews in the United States by 1880, many of them being the educated, and largely secular, German Jews, although a minority population of the older Sephardic Jewish families remained influential.
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